This article will describe the interactive sculpture Arbor in conceptual and operational terms, analyzing the relation developed with users, peering into the technology and the interfaces installed, checking the elapsed interventions and anticipating possible exploits. Arbor, due to its original...

Interactive films depend on the participation of viewers. This participation usually translates into making decisions that determine the sequence of the narrative. Many interactive films make use of an interaction design that reduces the viewer's immersiveness by interrupting the narrative to...

This article describes how to promote reading amongst children, changing the focus on the languages traditionally involved in the print, to the reading environment and adding other interactive languages, has led to the invention of: “Prazeroza – Interactive Reading Chair”. The intention is...

This article provides insights on an experimental artwork using a non-touch interaction interface. It details the use of a generative figurative approach and describes the audio-visual psychological and relational impact on the target-audience, through direct trial, observation and adaptation,...

This chapter describes how the Pixel 2 is an installation based on the matrix forms and the small quadrangular shapes that compose them. These forms are the source of the digital image (bitmap) that bring us simultaneously to the pictorial works of Impressionism to Neo-plasticism. The...

This article presents a new and efficient automatic method for structure-preserving stippling. The core idea is to concentrate on structure preservation by using a priority-based scheme that treats extremal pixels first and preferentially assigns positive error to lighter pixels and negative...

The use of educational datamining techniques to elicit patterns in student behavior and learning outcomes can be a useful for the analysis of the effectiveness of teaching strategies and the coordination of study programs. However, results from those techniques are, often, large sets of symbolic...

The authors describe a new Digital Planetarium system and application (“Galactica”), for interactive visualization of astrophysical data and phenomena in immersive virtual reality (VR) settings, based in OpenSceneGraph (OSG). Galactica enables a visual and aural experience of a virtual space...

This paper introduces a novel take on a well-known user interface that combines the advantages of a number of new technologies. In particular, it presents a new tangible interface with an interactive surrounding space. It demonstrates the technology in an exciting user case as a printed keyboard...

The artworks that fall nowadays within the umbrella term ‘mediadance,' characterized by the hybridism on the intersection of dance, moving image, digital technology and communication and information technologies, are representing and simulating not only new types of dancing body configurations...